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• HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONG IN ITALIAN FULL

A huge crowd of people would gather to sing along and everything would be broadcasted on TV. In the 90s, we had a very popular TV show called Karaoke where the host Fiorello used to travel around Italy hosting massive karaoke parties in the main Italian cities ( I went to one of those myself!). Or how many times I heard my Italian friends use the refrain of the song “Perdono ” by Tiziano Ferro to apologise for something in an amusing way! (more about this song and the singer later). For example, I don’t know how many times one of my friends, called Laura, has heard a joke about her name with reference to Nek’s song “Laura non c’è”. These kinds of songs are such a big part of Italian culture that it’s not rare to make reference to popular songs in the middle of conversations. If you’re learning Italian and want to understand Italian culture, it helps to know a bit of Italian popular music. Which brings me to you, and the reason why I wanted to write this article. Which was completely different from mine. My English friends had grown up with those songs and they knew all of them because those songs had been the soundtrack of their lives in that country. I felt like I was missing a huge piece of a cultural puzzle. Yes, I learned English as a second language but I had no idea about the kind of songs you can find at a British karaoke night.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONG IN ITALIAN FULL

Reason: while everyone was singing full out all those English songs, I didn’t know a single lyric. Little did I know that at the end of that night I would feel singled out and a bit embarrassed too. I love karaoke so it was going to be fun for sure, I thought.

Once my English friend invited me to a karaoke night.